Medieval dance - Dance demonstrations
€32.00
Double DVD - Directed by Patrick Kersalé - Produced by Lugdivine
Medieval Dance - Demonstration dances
Patrick Kersalé is a self-taught ethnomusicologist. Over the past two decades, he has worked in some forty countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia, photographing, recording and filming traditional musicians and studying their music.
The visual presentation of some thirty dances gives all enthusiasts the chance to see and understand the choreography immediately, so they can reproduce it.
Patrick Kersalé's design is based on a clear tree structure, giving access to a detailed presentation of the main steps and technical difficulties involved in certain figures.
Catherine Ingrassia, Christophe Deslignes, Xavier Terrasa and Cie Morescarole take to the stage in period costume, offering a wide-ranging overview of the various practices possible in this field.
Volume 1
Venes apres moi, Stella splendens B, A l'entrada del tens clar A, A l'entrada del tens clar B, Non sofr, Kalenda maya, La seconde estampie roya,l Quen a omagen, Moresque, Stella splendens A, Dame a vous sans retollir, Salterello 3 A, Salterello 3 B, Petits vriens, Faenza 43
Volume 2
Au renouveau du tens, In taberna (Benedicamus), In taberna (Ludus Danielis), Victime novali zynke ses, De mui grandes periglos, Robin par l'âme, Tuit cil, Danse du Roy, Ad mortem festinamus, Danse anglaise, Sing cuccu - English, Sing cuccu - Latin, Salterello 1, Faenza 17, T'andernaken
Double DVD €32
Authors' biographies
Catherine Ingrassia In 1982, she carried out her first research on medieval dance for her master's degree and doctorate in Art History on the iconography of dance in the Middle Ages at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her encounter with Léon Pressouyre, Claude Gaignebet and Andrea Francalanci transformed her studies into a passion; her research and regular practice led her to perfect her skills and discover many different dance techniques. In 2000, she set up the Morescarole association to guide dancers, musicians and circus performers through her research, experimenting with medieval dance and performance. Her approach to reading dance texts and images brings this repertoire to life, while remaining faithful to the sources. Catherine is a member of the International Dance Council (c/o UNESCO).
Christophe Deslignes Classically trained, Christophe Deslignes has dedicated himself to interpretation and creation on the portable organ since 1989. He graduated from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 1995, and played with Mala Punica from 1992 to 1998. His first solo album, "Les Maîtres de l'organetto florentin au XIVéme siècle", was named record of the year by Le Monde in 1998. Co-founder of Millenarium, he has been invited to perform on major national and international stages. His discography includes some fifty albums for the Arcana, Erato, Ricercar, Jade, Carpe Diem, MA-Recordings, Homerecordings and le lOcal labels. Christophe has worked at the Musée de la Musique in Paris since 2004, at the Institut Curie (pediatrics) since 2014 and in Neonatology at the CHU de Vannes since 2018. He has been in charge of developing the Medieval Music Department at the CRD du Havre since September 2018. He has been organizing medieval music and dance workshops since 1997 in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux, Sulniac and Bayeux.
Xavier Terrasa He has been performing the musical repertoires of the Western Middle Ages since 1992 as a singer and instrumentalist in ensembles such as La Maurache, Obsidienne , Millenarium, Amadis, Joër....He specializes in the reading of manuscript sources and medieval organology, which he teaches at the Sorbonne - Paris IV. He teaches the history of music in the Middle Ages at various institutions. He lectures at the Musée de la Musique in Paris. He is artistic director of the Instrumentarium de Chartres, a project to restore some fifty musical instruments based on the statuary, paintings and stained-glass windows of Chartres Cathedral.
